Reviews for Maxtor Atlas 10K IV 36.70 GB Internal Hard Drive - 1 Pack

Maxtor Atlas 10K IV 36.70 GB Internal Hard Drive - 1...

Strengths: Speed, Warranty, Reliability, Speed!

Weakness: Need to get a SCSI card if your system doesn't already have it.

I have an Athlon XP 2500+ system, which I upgraded a couple months ago, (from an 1800+). The system didn't speed up as I had expected, the hard drive (WD 60GB IDE 7200 RPM) tended to crank and the CPU was rarely if ever used more than 5%.

Then I got this baby. System performance is way up. The price per gigabyte was bit daunting, but with a 5 year warranty and the total system speed increase, it's well worth the investment. Whether you run a server or a desktop, 56k or 3 megabit cable, Intel or AMD, you don't want a bottleneck in your system. SCSI is the way to go, and Maxtor seems to bring it home for the best value.

Note: I'm formerly a WD advocate, and well aware of the debate between users of either brand, (something like the Mac vs PC argument). Before buying, I compared the two on terms of 1. measurement of what is a gigabyte, (WD gig is less than a Max gig), 2. taking Maxtor's lower price into consideration, and 3. warranty differences between the two on SCSI drives are nearly negligable.

All in all, on a system I've been struggling to see move faster, this is an upgrade that wasn't nearly the risk I thought it would be. No complaints whatsoever.

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